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I wouldn't say the Evengelicals are a large voting block in relation to the US population, but their oversized influence is due to their voting habits and the party's 40 year strategy of spreading apathy and disillusionment propaganda to the general voting public.
I don't think it'll happen over there due to structural issues, but the US is a cautionary tale of the rise of powerful minority party/coalitions and how they change the playing field to stay in power.
If you told someone in the US in the 50s that the regional Evengelicals would be a tour de force in America politics in 21st century, they laugh at you. Now they're one step away from the Presidency.
Doesn't work like that here. DUP are strictly regional. At most, they'll only ever have 18 seats. Unionism is also very slowly declining in NI anyway, and under representative boundaries the DUP would only have won 7 of those 18 seats. This is a historical fluke rather than a sign of things to come.